The windy backstreets of Silver Lake are pretty quiet in the predawn hours. At around 5 a.m. last Aug. 7, Juan David Vasquez Loma decided to take one of those residential roads — Effie Street — to drive home two co-workers after a late shift at Garage Pizza on Sunset Boulevard near Fountain Avenue.
But Vasquez Loma, 25, encountered a greenHonda, at or near the intersection of Effie and Micheltorena Street, that was stopped and partially blocking the way.
Vasquez Loma, a well-liked busboy at popular Mexican restaurant El Chavo, who often pulled a night shift on his second job doing deliveries for the nearby pizza joint, pulled out to pass the green Honda. As he did so, his passengers, Luis Lopez and Jonathan Mendoza, saw the Honda’s male driver and a female passenger. The driver “looked at me and I won’t ever forget that look,” Lopez later said.
http://www.laweekly.com/2012-02-23/news/silver-lake-murder-tagger-busboy/